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Solutions Engineer

Role overview

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in technical pre-sales (Solutions Engineer, Sales Engineer, or Solutions Architect) at a B2B SaaS company
  • Consultative, solutions-first mindset
  • Technical fluency with JavaScript, modern front-end frameworks, APIs, SDKs
  • Working knowledge of modern AI architecture

Responsibilities

  • Win complex technical deals
  • Lead technical discovery across customer architecture, content workflows, integration requirements
  • Act as a trusted technical advisor, helping customers evaluate architecture choices
  • Create reusable demo and discovery frameworks, POC processes, and competitive playbooks

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Consultative Approaches
  • Communication

About the company

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CKEditor

Developer Tools & DevOps Platforms

CKSource is the creator of CKEditor, and with more than 20 years’ experience creating WYSIWYG editors, we’re the experts in rich text editing. Our flagship product, CKEditor 5, is trusted by both Fortune 500 companies and hundreds of millions of users worldwide, for its almost limitless possibilities and customizations. The latest version, CKEditor 5, was rewritten in TypeScript with a modern MVC architecture, custom data model and virtual-DOM structures, and is purpose-built for collaboration. It effortlessly works with modern tech stacks and easily handles complex implementations and edge cases. Developers have complete front- and back-end control of the editor, to easily configure, customize and control every aspect of the editor’s look, feel, and functionality. Infinite possibilities are achievable with the CKEditor WYSIWYG: collaborative tools and advanced features are individually selected, to perfectly suit your application and users. The story began in 2003 with a single open-source side project, when Brazilian developer Frederico Caldeira Knabben built a groundbreaking rich text editor, known as FCKEditor. The software rapidly became so popular in the open-source community that the project quickly expanded. CKSource was established in 2006 and has steadily grown ever since. In 2021, the company became part of Tiugo Technologies, a PSG portfolio company specializing in global, API-first developer platforms in the document and data management markets. CKSource now has over 80 employees, including more than 50 talented developers. In addition to making our market-leading software, we’re dedicated to supporting our people and building a brilliant company culture. In September 2022, CKSource was awarded the Great Place to Work® Certification™ – a global ranking based entirely on employee satisfaction.

Company details

Company typeScaleup
IndustryDeveloper Tools & DevOps Platforms
Company size51 - 200

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Job description

About TinyMCE

TinyMCE is the rich text editor behind the content experiences of thousands of software companies and enterprises worldwide. It's part of Tiugo Technologies, a portfolio that also includes CKEditor, Uploadcare, and ButterCMS. We're growing into AI-powered content creation, adding AI capabilities on top of the editor that developers already build on.  

The Role

You'll be our first dedicated Solutions Engineer. You'll lead the technical side of our most complex deals, mainly TinyMCE AI and strategic enterprise opportunities for the core editor. You'll work each deal alongside our Account Executives, Account Managers, and Product Managers, and you'll set the standard for how we win technically.

This is a player-coach role in practice, even though you won't manage anyone. You'll be involved in deals directly. You'll also build the playbooks, a demo library, and POC framework the rest of the team uses. That work matters as much as the deals. There's no SE leader here to hand you a playbook, because you're writing it.

What You'll Do

Win complex technical deals

  • Lead technical discovery across customer architecture, content workflows, integration requirements, and AI ambitions

  • Act as a trusted technical advisor, helping customers evaluate architecture choices and challenging assumptions when appropriate

  • Deliver tailored demos rooted in the customer’s use case and needs; not feature tours

  • Own the technical win from discovery through architecture, security review, and sign-off

  • Translate technical capabilities into business outcomes 

Run evaluations that lead to decisions

  • Establish clear evaluation criteria and lead disciplined POCs with defined success criteria, outcomes, timelines, and checkpoints

  • Guide build vs. buy and competitive evaluations with a credible view of cost, time to value, and risk

  • Know when a POC isn't the right next step and say so

Make the AI story credible

  • Explain our AI architecture from user experience and orchestration to underlying models to technical and business audiences

  • Navigate topics including LLM APIs, RAG, model choice, data privacy, and security

  • Partner with AEs and AMs to turn technical differentiation into business cases champions can take to economic buyers

Build the SE motion

  • Create reusable demo and discovery frameworks, POC processes, and competitive playbooks

  • Serve as the technical voice of the field to Product and Engineering, bringing structured feedback on customer needs, product gaps, and competitive pressure

  • Enable AEs and AMs to handle first-level technical and AI discovery independently

What You Bring

  • 5+ years in technical pre-sales (Solutions Engineer, Sales Engineer, or Solutions Architect) at a B2B SaaS company, ideally selling to developers or product teams

  • A consultative, solutions-first mindset. You can map a customer's content workflows end to end, spot where the editor and AI fit (and where they don't), and design a proposed solution. Our products are building blocks, not plug-and-play, and every strategic deal takes some shaping.

  • Experience winning complex, multi-stakeholder enterprise evaluations and running structured POCs

  • Technical fluency with JavaScript, modern front-end frameworks, APIs, SDKs, and integration patterns

  • Working knowledge of modern AI architecture, including LLM APIs, orchestration, RAG, model selection, data privacy, and security

  • Ability to connect technical decisions to measurable business value

  • Strong communication across audiences, from engineers and architects to senior business leaders

  • The judgment and initiative to succeed while establishing our playbook

Nice to Have

  • Experience as the first or an early SE for a company or product line

  • Software engineering experience before moving into pre-sales

  • Experience selling into regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare, or legal

Why Join TinyMCE

Build our SE motion from the ground up, shape how we take AI to market, and influence the product through direct exposure to our most strategic customers. Do so in a profitable, growing PSG portfolio company with an enviable customer base and financial strength. Alongside joining a great team in an impactful role, some of our benefits include:

  • Extra paid leave and dedicated funds to pursue personal development (up to 5 days and $1500 a year based on tenure)

  • Competitive medical, retirement and PTO benefits

  • Fully remote work environment

  • Access to a mental health and wellbeing platform with 24/7 dedicated psychological support, and targeted programs to promote wellness

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